Device Stops Speeders From Inside Car

frdmfghtr writes "CNN reports that the Canadian government is testing a new anti-speeding device." From the article: "The system being tested by Transport Canada, the Canadian equivalent of the U.S. Department of Transportation, uses a global positioning satellite device installed in the car to monitor the car's speed and position. If the car begins to significantly exceed the speed limit for the road on which it's traveling the system responds by making it harder to depress the gas pedal, according to a story posted on the Toronto Globe and Mail's Website."

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Stop advancing!

[mister_llah]

Too posh to push?

Infant mortality rates and the death rates of mothers were also higher before.

Do you have to suffer to make things more meaningful? Technology, including anesthesological technology, is usually developed to make our lives more enjoyable. This is off topic, but I think by looking down on anyone who has had an epidural because they didn't endure the great pain of childbirth at home... is like looking down on people with electricity because they don't burn candles for light.

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Uh, how to make this on topic, uhh... oh yeah, technology is usually developed to make our lives more enjoyable... but sometimes... the Canadian transportation people come in and try to put crazy devices in cars... and ruin everyone's lives!

Bacon Brain Canadians

[Anonymous Coward]

What the fuck? How stupid does a nation have to be to approve of something like this? Canadians already drive so fucking slowly it's painful, usually cruising 20 km/h below speed limit.

And what is the reason for this? To perpetuate the myth that speed kills? Look at Germany (and parts of it have similar climate and lots of snow and ice). People regularly drive in excess of 200 km/h on their autobahns. Over here you'd get shot by the cops (if they didn't faint first seeing the radar reading) if they cought you driving that fast.

This is an issue of mentality and not safety, security or even money. Everyone is brainwashed to think speed kills and it's bad to go fast. And if you are truly scared to drive fast then drive in the fucking rightmost lane, not in the leftmost (morons).

Re:Still pointing at the wrong problem...

[mario_grgic]

Well, actually Germans are a lot smarter than your average Canadian (lived in both countries), more cultured too, and on average drive a lot better cars capable and safer at the higher speeds that Germans drive, and quality of driving in Germany by your average driver is extremely high, in the top 5 percentile of Canadian drivers. So there, perhaps that explains something.